Life is short. We don't have much time to gladden the hearts of those who walk this way with us. So be swift to love and make haste to be kind.
03530 – Life is Short!
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03526 – Loving Your Enemies
Loving your enemies has the deep spiritual benefit of enabling us to set our own course in life rather than constantly being in a posture of angry response to what other people do. There is freedom along this route, but it requires considerable internal strength and...
03515 – Fix the Picture!
What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it is supposed to be.
03513 – Live the Life You Want to Live
People may call what happens at midlife "a crisis," but it's not. It's an unraveling--a time when you need a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're "supposed to live."
03512 – Tame God vs. Wild God
I, too, am tired of the tame God and boxed-in-Christ, distorted by control-seeking humans who use religion to maintain the status quo. I'm yearning for a wild God that compels me to full participation in this miraculous dance of life, deepening the meaning in a core...
03498 – A Lifetime of Listening
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
03496 – All Life is Interrelated
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
03486 – Changing Ourselves
We must never forget that we might also find meaning in life when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed... When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
03478 – Life is Hard!
Life is hard--not because we're doing it wrong, just because it's hard.
03473 – It’s a Hard Life
Life is hard--not because we're doing it wrong, just because it's hard.